Comment Re:Odd (Score 1) 142
Correction from Lawrence Berkley
Comment Odd (Score 2, Informative) 142
Didn't the team that falsified the info about 114 and 116 come from Lawrence Livermoore
Comment Serial Ports are still on Motherboards (Score 1) 347
Even though a machine may not have Serial ports on the mother board it could still have them. Most motherboards will have a connector to plug in a serial port interface. You just need to get a interface for it, they are pretty easy to find. No PCI card needed.
Comment Were have we seen this before (Score 1) 495
AT&T did the same thing back in the day. They were all paranoid about people plugging anything into the PSTN that they didn't own (including home phones). The Hushaphone and Carterphone cases were prime examples of this.
Comment Now the question remains (Score 1) 248
If you get it though a tunnel/proxy server will it work.
IMHO the effectiveness of location based filtering/blocking is inversely proportional to the l33tness of you users.
It sounds like you are over their for some school/work related thing. Both of those institutions commonly provide VPN service.
IMHO the effectiveness of location based filtering/blocking is inversely proportional to the l33tness of you users.
It sounds like you are over their for some school/work related thing. Both of those institutions commonly provide VPN service.
Comment Re:They're stuck in the tv mindsest (Score 1) 442
I agree with you but, I think another part of the problem is that people don't like paying money upfront on the internet for something.
By pushing the cost to the ISP instead of charging customers upfront, people don't see the direct cost of it, and will probably use the service more. Although their monthly bill will be higher, it will only be a few dollars. Had the used the "iTunes" model and charge about a dollar per game, it would of be substantially more expensive.
So I guess you can say that they are charging for content "in bulk"
By pushing the cost to the ISP instead of charging customers upfront, people don't see the direct cost of it, and will probably use the service more. Although their monthly bill will be higher, it will only be a few dollars. Had the used the "iTunes" model and charge about a dollar per game, it would of be substantially more expensive.
So I guess you can say that they are charging for content "in bulk"
Court Rejects RIAA's Proposed Protective Order 197
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "You may recall that a few weeks ago the Court rendered a detailed decision providing for safeguards in connection with the RIAA's proposed inspection of the defendant's hard drive in SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. The decision instructed the RIAA to submit a proposed protective order consistent with the Court's decision. The RIAA submitted a proposed protective order yesterday, which attracted some thoughtful commentary by readers of my blog, but today the Court rejected the RIAA's suggested order, explicitly rejecting many of the 'enhancements' included by the RIAA, including production of 'videos' and 'playlists' which might be found on the hard drive. Instead the Court entered an order the Court itself had drafted. The Court explained that 'the purpose of compelling inspection is to identify information reasonably calculated to provide evidence of any file-sharing of Plaintiffs' copyrighted music sound files conducted on the Defendant's computer. Once this data is identified by the computer forensic expert... any disclosure shall flow through the Defendant subject to his assertion of privilege and the Court's authority to compel production, just as disclosure would occur in any other pre-trial discovery setting... (1) As should have been clear from the Court's May 6, 2009 Order, although the Plaintiffs may select experts of their choosing, these individuals are not to be employees of the Plaintiffs or their counsel, but must be third-parties held to the strictest standards of confidentiality; (2) the inspection is limited to music sound files, metadata associated with music sound files, and information related to the file-sharing of music sound files — it shall not include music "playlists" or any other type of media file (e.g., video); (3) the Examining Expert shall be required to disclose both the methods employed to inspect the hard drive and any instruction or guidance received from the Plaintiffs.'"
Comment People are going to hate me for this (Score 1) 341
But I hate OpenOffice, and I love MS Office 2k7.
Now you might think that I was some MS fanboy (I chose my nickname before I got into Linux). But I think most MS products suck compared to their Linux/FOSS counterparts. But until they release Office for *NIX (Hey they did it with IE) I will be content with running a VM for the sole reason of running Office.
Now I will admit that it did take a little getting used to the new Interface but once I did I found it better, and they added some cool features. The Equation editing is vastly improved, as is the list generator.
Also OO spell check sucks, and it lacks a grammer checker(at least in the one I use 2.1). Don't tell me its my job to check a 9 page paper, to find places were it put "The the car" (The way I write my paper tends to make this happen alot, I write a bunch of sub sections then paste them together).
Now you might think that I was some MS fanboy (I chose my nickname before I got into Linux). But I think most MS products suck compared to their Linux/FOSS counterparts. But until they release Office for *NIX (Hey they did it with IE) I will be content with running a VM for the sole reason of running Office.
Now I will admit that it did take a little getting used to the new Interface but once I did I found it better, and they added some cool features. The Equation editing is vastly improved, as is the list generator.
Also OO spell check sucks, and it lacks a grammer checker(at least in the one I use 2.1). Don't tell me its my job to check a 9 page paper, to find places were it put "The the car" (The way I write my paper tends to make this happen alot, I write a bunch of sub sections then paste them together).
Comment Re:Really... (Score 1) 230
Clearly a circuit based connection is more relia*%$^()^$ NO CARRIER
Comment Re:What a great idea! (Score 1) 496
hehehe
Comment Just one app (Score 1) 695
They must be trying to push their virtualization stuff.
Comment Just reinvent Physics (Score 1) 627
Hey its not like it hasn't been done before, I propose we call the new version Post-Modern Physics.
Comment So what they are trying to say is (Score 1) 627
...The bubbles can't take no more Capt.
Comment Can't watch it in the living room (Score 1) 576
Everyone here keeps saying "But wait, I don't want to watch TV on my computer, I want to watch it on my TV" is like saying "I don't want to listen to music I downloaded of off the Internet on my computer, so the CD still has a market for portable applications" that argument became irrelevant when they invented the MP3 player, and so will the TV one once those MythTV/Hulu/Youtube boxes become more mainstream.
Comment Re:TV will be back - but not as TV (Score 1) 576
Your forgetting upstream. Yes will this might work for downstream connections, you need an upstream connection to send data out. Simple logic says if you have a big high power antenna to send from A to B then you need a equally high powered antenna to send from B to A.
